HitchBOT The Hitchhiking Robot Is No More!

HitchBOT the friendly hitchhiking robot has been vandalised in the US.

He has made cross-country treks across Canada, the Netherlands and Germany and his next stop was the US.

He was created from odds and ends as a social experiment, to see if his kind could "trust" humans - but unfortunately when he got to the US, he was ripped apart...

"HitchBOT's trip came to an end last night in Philadelphia after having spent a little over two weeks hitchhiking and visiting sites in Boston, Salem, Gloucester, Marblehead, and New York City," the hitchBOT "family" said on its website.